Chapter 317: Target: Saipan

When the West White Tiger Fleet and the First Marine Corps of the Red Alert launched a full-scale counteroffensive in the South Pacific, on another battlefield in the Pacific, the North Xuanwu Fleet of the Red Alert Navy also sailed to Saipan.

All seven main aircraft carriers of the Western White Tiger Fleet were dispatched, and among the fleet, there were seven Dreadnought second-class battleships, 32 Aegis cruisers, 56 multi-purpose destroyers, and nearly 70 Turtles for minesweeping.

The main force responsible for the landing operation consisted of seven amphibious assault ships, 110 amphibious tank landing ships, 60 amphibious troop carriers, and a total of 349 warships.

The attack on Saipan will be a blitzkrieg landing, followed by a rapid capture of Guam, which will not allow Japan more time to react.

Therefore, the action needs to be quite rapid.

Saipan is the main island of the Mariana Archipelago, with an area of 185 square kilometers, a length of about 21 kilometers, and a width ranging from 4 kilometers to 8 kilometers.

The terrain of the island is high in the center and low in all sides, and there are many peaks, hills and ditches on the island. The commanding point is the Tapocho peak at an altitude of 450 meters in the center of the island, and there is a coral reef covering the entire beach on the west coast of the island, which is divided in two by Cape Galapan, forming a natural harbor - Port Tanapan in the north.

The port is also the economic and cultural center of Saipan and the Mariana Islands, and is flanked to the south by the flat Marquiches Beach, making it an ideal landing beachhead.

The Japanese army built three airfields on Saipan, and the Aslilo airfield in the south was built in the thirties and expanded to accommodate any type of aircraft, making it the island's main airfield.

The nearby Chalancanoa airport is an airstrip and can only take off and land small aircraft. To the north, the Mapi airfield, with a short runway, serves as an alternate airfield for fighter jets to land in an emergency.

And Saipan is not only the central island of the Japanese army in the Mariana Islands, but also the core of defense in the Central Pacific region.

At present, the Japanese military department has plans to increase the number of troops on Saipan, but it has not yet begun to implement it.

Saipan had almost 50,000 defenders, more than 200 artillery pieces, and dozens of tanks.

Dozens of small ships of the 55 th Naval Garrison of the Japanese Navy are also responsible for the security of the sea area, and there are a total of 6 or 700 Japanese planes on the island.

This defensive force of the Japanese army is really strong, even if the Northern Xuanwu Fleet intends to break through forcefully, it is difficult to ensure a certain safety factor for itself.

In particular, the radar system, which has begun to be strengthened on the island, makes it difficult to launch a sneak attack from the air and take the lead in destroying the island's airfields and defenses.

However, the Red Guard Navy has one of the biggest advantages, that is, the concealment of its operations, and the carelessness of the Japanese side.

At this time, the eyes of the Japanese military headquarters were all on the South Pacific theater, and no one paid attention to Saipan at all.

And the Japanese don't believe that the Red Guard Corps is already attacking the South Pacific with all its might, how can there still be troops to capture Saipan.

The defenseless Japanese military could not have imagined that the Red Guard Corps Navy still had such a powerful force in the Central Pacific.

Saipan Island at night gradually quieted down, the insects in the forest did not stop, and the hot weather made it difficult for many Japanese soldiers from Hokkaido on the island to sleep.

The surging waves swept the rocky beach, the white tide went one after another, and after the waves, near the reef near the shore, black figures slowly squeezed out of the sea from the waves, and the completely black diving suits blended into the dark environment around them.

This is a rocky reef coastline, close to the island is a cliff more than ten meters high, and the place is frequented by sharks, even the Japanese army did not bother to arrange a guard in this area.

Because this is not a landing point, and no one will come.

However, such a place is the most suitable for special forces operations, and this kind of corner that no one pays attention to is often a good place to attack it by surprise.

One by one, the figures that emerged from the waves climbed onto the exposed reef, and the slippery reef overgrown with marine microorganisms became a temporary foothold for these dark shadows.

He quickly took off the cumbersome diving suit on his body, untied the oxygen cylinder, and equipped himself with various weapons and equipment in the package.

Twenty dark ghosts of a full special commando team, silently ready for the next move.

On a reef near the bottom of the cliff, a black ghost operates a high-end-looking crossbow bolt launcher, which shoots straight into the rock at the top of the cliff, and the rope is hanging down the sea.

In the darkness, ghosts quickly climbed the rope and disappeared into the reef.

On the cliff, there was no human figure, and the 50,000 Japanese soldiers on the island did not know that someone was coming in the dark.

By the darkness of the night, twenty figures quickly disappeared into the jungle of the island.

On Tapocho Peak, there is a secret radar station newly built by the Japanese army, the radar is hidden in the dense forest near the top of the mountain, and the Red Guard Corps does not know the precise location of the radar station, so it can only rely on radar waves to lock an approximate location.

The Red Guard Corps does not have anti-radiation missiles at present, so it cannot lock on to destroy this radar according to the signal of the radar wave.

The target of this special commando team in this operation is the radar station on the island.

In order to ensure the smooth operation, the special commando team dispatched this time is the top special commando team of the Red Police Corps, and every member in it belongs to the top masters in the corps.

After a silent march along the way, in less than an hour, they were already close to the area near the target.

At the moment, although it was night, the radar station was still operating, and according to the radar signal detector carried, the assault team quickly lurked on the edge of the radar station.

The radar station was not built on the top of a mountain, but on a somewhat concave mountainside, which was very hidden and difficult to destroy by ordinary air raids.

There was a squadron of defenders in the radar station, which was still on high alert even at night, and the radar station was surrounded by barbed wire, and from time to time there were Japanese soldiers patrolling.

The commando team did not act in a hurry, but lurked near the radar station, and the leader of this special commando team reported the situation to the fleet as soon as possible: "Call Xuanwu, I am a black fox." ”

"Xuanwu received, black fox, please speak."

"The black fox has found the goods, please ask if you can act."

"The air raid is about to begin, and the black fox immediately takes action."

"Black Fox understands."

After the communication was ended, the leader of the Black Fox Special Commando immediately gave the order for action: "Black Fox Special Commando, the operation begins." ”